Winchester deploys new e-prescribing system
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust deployed a hospital wide e-prescribing system in just four days. The trust decided that its old e-prescribing system was outdated and chose JAC’s Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration solution to replace it. Damien Kelly, the trust’s lead pharmacist electronic prescribing and pharmacy systems IT manager said: “The usual approach […]
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College highlights poor PACS image sharing
Picture Archiving and Communication Systems are largely successful in individual hospitals but communication between systems in different hospitals is poor, according to a new position paper from the Royal College of Radiologists.
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Work stops again on ContactPoint
The introduction of the national children’s database ContactPoint has been suspended after local authority staff discovered loopholes in the system designed to protect the most vulnerable young people. The Department of Children, Schools and Families said it had “paused” the flow of data into ContactPoint from sources such as the child benefit database after local […]
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Personal view: Dr Bhupinder Mangat
Doctors can’t dismiss the power of the internet to enhance patient feedback, says Dr Bhupinder Mangat, a GP in Hounslow.
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CfH terminates Fujitsu helpdesk contract
NHS Connecting for Health has terminated the service desk contract it had with Fujitsu because of performance problems. The First Line Service Support contract with Fujitsu Services Ltd was terminated last week. A CfH spokesperson said the service desk would be transferred in house and supported from the agency’s Exeter office until a permanent provider […]
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Report shows flaws in safety reporting
Trusts are failing to report patient safety incidents and to review their policies in response to known problems, a report has shown. The report published by the Healthcare Commission on improving patient safety in the NHS says that levels of incident reporting within many trusts are inadequate. It says “incidents are not being reported effectively” […]
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NHSBT secures portable media
NHS Blood and Transplant is rolling out a project to protect data on laptops, PCs, USB sticks and other portable media. The project was launched in 2008 to meet government requirements to protect mobile devices from malware, data loss and theft. The agency is working with Integralis, which provides IT security services, and solutions from […]
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NHS boss puts programme tender on table
NHS chief executive David Nicholson told MPs on Wednesday that the Department of Health is going to tender for alternatives to the iSoft Lorenzo and Cerner Millennium care record systems.
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Planning for pandemic flu
Clinical Solutions is helping to lay the foundations for coping with an outbreak of pandemic flu. Sarah Bruce reports.
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Trust incident reports published
The National Patient Safety Agency has started to publish patient safety incident reports from every NHS trust and local health board in England and Wales. It says the reports will create greater transparency within the NHS by allowing managers and patients to see how many incidents occur over a six month period, what kind of […]
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